Gerard Butler is a famous Hollywood actor born in Scotland. He starred in films of various genres, including musicals and melodramas, but he especially succeeds in the roles of brave and brutal men.
Childhood, adolescence and student years
The talented actor was born on November 13, 1969 in Scotland, into the family of Edward and Margaret Butler. But six months after his birth, the family moves to Canada to create their own business. Butlers were unable to make money in Montreal, but divorced a year later. Margaret and her sons returned to Scotland, where Gerard spent his childhood and youth.
The future actor was seriously interested in martial arts and achieved success in sports. And at the age of 12 he began to play in the youth theater. It was after this that Gerard began to dream of an acting career, but his mother did not support him, considering this passion for pampering. After leaving school, Butler went to law college so as not to upset his mother. In college, as in school, he was one of the best students. But immediately after graduation, Gerard went to Los Angeles. It turns out that all these years he could not give up his dream of becoming an actor. But after 1.5 years, he returns to his homeland, never having achieved success.
In Scotland, Butler takes a job as a lawyer in a large firm, but this is not satisfying. The actor drowns his inner void and unfulfilled dreams in alcohol. Because of this addiction, he is fired from work before the end of the internship. Butler decides on a second attempt to build an acting career and goes to London. In the capital of Great Britain, he takes on any job: a salesman, a waiter and an assistant in the theater. And luck finally smiles at him - he gets the main role in the Irish production of "On the Needle."
Acting career and filmography
In 1997, Gerard Butler first appeared on the screen in the film "Mrs. Brown." It was an episodic role, but it was she who began the dizzying career. Then he starred in the series "Lucy Sullivan Marries, " in the films "Harrison's Flowers" and "Arrows".
The first main roles the actor got in the films "Attila the Conqueror" and "Dracula 2000". The beginning of the new century brings Butler new roles and the opportunity to work together with Angelina Jolie in the film "Lara Croft". In 2004, he starred in the musical The Phantom of the Opera, with the actor playing all the parts himself. The work was complicated, but the picture at the box office raised more than $ 150 million and was nominated for an Oscar.
In 2005, Gerard starred in the films "Beowulf and Grendel" and "The Game of Their Life", and in 2007 in the historical blockbuster about the feat of warriors "300 Spartans". Then he manages to work with Guy Ritchie. The director offered him the main role in the crime comedy "Rock and Roll".
The talented Scot does not stop at one genre, constantly embodying new images. In 2009, he played beautifully both in the comedy Naked Truth and in the thriller Gamer. His successful roles in the drama "Law Abiding Citizen" and the comedy action movie "Bounty Hunter."
In 2011, the actor has to take a break in filming due to injuries received while working on an action movie. Butler treats cervical vertebral fractures for about a year, and then he has to seek help at a rehabilitation center to get rid of dependence on anesthetics.
In 2014, the action movie "The Fall of London" and the blockbuster "Gods of Egypt" appeared on the screens. In 2016, the actor gets the main role in the film-disaster "Geostorm", he appears in the drama "The Hunter of Wall Street".
